Archive for the 'Internet' Category

Website Name FAIL

What kind of men?!?!?! Shat terd men!
If this organization wants to do a presentation at your church make sure you add an extra bathroom…
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Twitter Retention Rate

Nielsen, the same people who do TV ratings, recently noted that more than 60% of new Twitter users fail to return to the site the following month.
Judging Twitter retention by how many people “visit the site” is like judging Dominoes Pizza by how many people dine-in.
It’s true that [...]

Review: Shane Hipps – Flickering Pixels

Marshall McLuhan began his 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, with the following:
“In a culture like ours, long accustomed to splitting and dividing all things as a means of control, it is sometimes a bit of a shock to be reminded that, in operational and practical fact, the medium is the message.”
For nearly [...]

NBC Rejects Obama Pro-life Super Bowl Ad

NBC has reportedly rejected the following ad, saying that NBC and the NFL are not interested in advertisements involving “political advocacy or issues.”
What do you think?

Send feedback to NBC to: victoria.morgan AT nbc.com
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the Ottawa Senators.
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Leamington Mennonite Man Loses $150,000 in Email Scam

Below you can listen to a clip of the CBC news from this week about a man in Leamington who recently lost $150,000 in an email scam.  These scammers are relentless and will use any story or lie they think might work on you.  In this case, as you’ll hear, they appealed to this man’s [...]

Twitter Status Theology

Calvinist: “God predestined this status update.”
Arminian: “If God wants to know what’s going on, he needs to subscribe to my Twitter feed.”
Discuss.
By the way, this is my Twitter feed.
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the Ottawa Senators.
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Triumph In Waiting: The Rise of Digital Journalism

This is a re-post of an article I published ay Digital Journal in the summer of 2007.  It still seems timely considering the numer of attacks I’ve heard by “real” journalists on bloggers.
 Triumph In Waiting: The Rise of Digital Journalism
July 28, 2007
One week ago I sent a letter to the editor of the National Post [...]

Live Blogging the (Canadian) Debate

I hadn’t planned on doing this… in fact, I’ve never live-blogged anything before.  And also, I kind of forgot the debate was going to be on so I didn’t prepare at all, but I found myself at the computer, watching TV and figured “Why not?”.
So I live micro-blogged via Twitter.  Here’s the transcript, including a [...]

GAudio: Audio Indexing from Google

Yes, I love Google… and it’s a much cheaper obsession then being an Apple fanboy.  And I love audio, both spoken-word and music.  So this is exciting:
 http://labs.google.com/gaudi
It looks like its not fully functional yet but this is very promising.
(HT: Justin Taylor)
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys [...]

A Different Kind of Fast

Getting information from the internet, someone said, is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. The flow of information is overwhelming and it’s more than anyone can possibly consume.  Appropriate use of the internet then involves trying to get what you need from the torrent of information without getting completely soaked.
The mass of information [...]